Plastic Little
"Where the fuck is hovercraft rap?" rants Jayson Musson.
"It's 2008 and I haven't heard one song about hovercrafts or the Human Genome!" He has a point. In fact, Musson and his rap crew - Philly-based Plastic Little - have several, and they ain't afraid to express 'em.
PL aren't like other hip-hop crews. They don't go for standard, homogenized mainstream rap, nor do they diggeth dense/dull backpacker shizzle. Instead, they take a leaf - a branch, a tree - from Spank Rock's brash and brittle Book of Beats, peppering this boisterous backdrop with a showy mash of surreal humour and biting social satire.
Their debut album, 'She's Mature', is leftfield enough in places to beg the question: is it rap? "It's definitely rap, but we often call it 'Broke Pop' because we try to make these pop rap songs, but then the humor or some fucked up lyric makes our music very un-pop," says Musson. "Another term we used as a joke at first but I've seen used seriously to describe us now is 'PoMoHiHo', which is Post Modern Hip-Hop. It was really just a joke that came about from a radio appearance we did, but the poindexters love the word." Would you prosecute a clown for creating animals out of balloons?
Sonically similar to Spank Rock's acclaimed 'YoYoYoYoYo', 'She's Mature' mixes it up between Wu Tang homages like '5th Chamber' to funny piss-takes like 'The Jump-off' and 'Rap O'Clock'. Though the humour spills into puerility at times, the album is amusing enough to put Plastic Little in the hip-hop pen for definitively corrupting it's duller impulses.
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"It's 2008 and I haven't heard one song about hovercrafts or the Human Genome!" He has a point. In fact, Musson and his rap crew - Philly-based Plastic Little - have several, and they ain't afraid to express 'em.
PL aren't like other hip-hop crews. They don't go for standard, homogenized mainstream rap, nor do they diggeth dense/dull backpacker shizzle. Instead, they take a leaf - a branch, a tree - from Spank Rock's brash and brittle Book of Beats, peppering this boisterous backdrop with a showy mash of surreal humour and biting social satire.
Their debut album, 'She's Mature', is leftfield enough in places to beg the question: is it rap? "It's definitely rap, but we often call it 'Broke Pop' because we try to make these pop rap songs, but then the humor or some fucked up lyric makes our music very un-pop," says Musson. "Another term we used as a joke at first but I've seen used seriously to describe us now is 'PoMoHiHo', which is Post Modern Hip-Hop. It was really just a joke that came about from a radio appearance we did, but the poindexters love the word." Would you prosecute a clown for creating animals out of balloons?
Sonically similar to Spank Rock's acclaimed 'YoYoYoYoYo', 'She's Mature' mixes it up between Wu Tang homages like '5th Chamber' to funny piss-takes like 'The Jump-off' and 'Rap O'Clock'. Though the humour spills into puerility at times, the album is amusing enough to put Plastic Little in the hip-hop pen for definitively corrupting it's duller impulses.
Clash Music
